Adrienne Vaughan, the 45-year-old president of the US branch of the Bloomsbury publishing house, died after a collision between a speedboat and a 45-metre sailboat on Italy’s Amalfi coast.
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The extreme weather with a heatwave in southern Italy, and the storms in northern Italy have claimed five lives in the past two days. Wildfires rage in Sicily with Palermo almost isolated by the flames.
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A fire in the early hours of Wednesday completely destroyed contemporary Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Venere degli Stracci (Venus of the Rags) installation in Naples’ Piazza Municipio.
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Archaeologists uncover evidence of what is being considered the Pompeii precursor to pizza. The fresco may be an “ancestor” of the modern pizza.
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The harbourmaster at Naples’s Mergellina port bans superyachts longer than 75 metres for security reasons. Billionaires can no longer moor their boats in Naples, meaning the city misses out much needed revenue.
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The fishing village of Monopoli in Puglia placed a statue of a voluptuous mermaid in one of its squares. The artwork has been described as “too provocative”.
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The excavations to uncover the temple discovered in 2019 by the ruins of the walls of the ancient Greek city of Paestum have produced some huge surprises. Paestum is in the Italian province of Salerno.
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New research into the Vesuvius eruption of 79AD shows a cloud of ash so hot it incinerated bodies and vitrified brains hit Herculaneum.
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According to witnesses, Tom Cruise is shooting flight scenes for Mission: Impossible 8 in Puglia. The actor was seen boarding a helicopter in Bari for an unknown destination today.
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The Plinian eruption of Mount Vesuvius, around 4,000 years ago, buried and preserved an entire Bronze Age village. Researchers are trying to pinpoint a more precise date of the eruption.
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